Review Dogs smash Eagles by 101 points

[Leon]

I feel sorry for Eagles fans, I just can't imagine watching them weekly this season. It's giving me flashbacks of 2014.

The Eagles play finals virtually every season and are usually contending for the premiership when they do.


I don’t have a problem with West Coast but I’m pretty sure their fans will cope.

 

[John Smith92]

How do the eagles look worse than north?

 

[Bazzas Lovechild]

I don’t , I remember us going over there every season in the early 2000s and getting smashed . It’s great to put the boot in . duck them

Absolutely agree with this. Screw them. The humiliation on their home deck was a thing of beauty.

 

[Generation West]

Very good

 

[LittleG]

How do the eagles look worse than north?

Yes.

 

[weltschmerz]

I swear English and CD do this on purpose

 

[Kermit]

The West Coast board is pretty depressing reading. Would hate to be supporting them at the moment. Their game with the kangaroos is going to be either one of the most contested games of the year or a tankfest.

Do they play again? Norf won the first one

 

[Doggy]

Boys didn’t let up and played to the end….

So close to getting the record for most individual goal scores in the end, equaled record with 16.

Macrae was there in the last play too

 

[ossie_21]

Cleary & AJ putting in work well after the game for their match fitness

 

[dergert]

Great team performance tonight.

McNeil and West are growing into their positions.

 

[CDBulldog]

Do they play again? Norf won the first one

Do they play again? Norf won the first one

You’re right, they don’t. Didn’t realise they have already played. I’d pick Norf if they played next week. West Coast are woeful.

 

[wian]

Highlight of the night was seeing Kennedy give up 2 X 50m penalties resulting in Keath's 2nd goal !! Lol

 

[doggies ftw]

Undefeated and with an average winning margin of 101 points when we play two rucks this year.

Timmy was silly good tonight wasn’t he bloody hell, not sure what we do about our 2nd ruck going forward - tonight didn’t help sort that issue, probably just made it more complicated

 

[doggies ftw]

What if I tell D Mitchell you said JUH played like Buddy in the VFL earlier today?

Norm did, he’s in for a rude shock

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Whenever we wear the white strip we win .

Please don’t quote stats that dispute this FACT.

 

[JTCWBFC]

Flew from the Gold Coast to watch this.

Sat in the eagles members section with a mates tickets.

Locals were getting very restless and turning on each other.

Sympathy levels non existent.

Well worth the travel.

 

[Ash1337]

Timmy was silly good tonight wasn’t he bloody hell, not sure what we do about our 2nd ruck going forward - tonight didn’t help sort that issue, probably just made it more complicated

Sweet didn't really stand out or play that well tonight outside of ruck contests so I don't know if they'll persist with the dual ruck going forward. They might drop sweet for Smith and play Khamis in the ruck.

 

[Golden_6]

English is on his way to become a top 10 player in the comp. So unique.

 

[John Smith92]

Sweet didn't really stand out or play that well tonight so I don't know if they'll persist with the dual ruck going forward. They might drop sweet for Smith and play Khamis in the ruck.

English is our only player who can manage the second ruck/tall forward position but at the same time he's our best ruck by so much that it would be stupid to play him that way. Have we reached the Zaine Cordy part of that cycle again yet or do we go through Dunkley first?

 

[bullish23]

I feel sorry for Eagles fans, I just can't imagine watching them weekly this season. It's giving me flashbacks of 2014.

yeah, nah

Every dog has its day. Year on year on year it was us on the end of those 440pm Sunday afternoon floggings in the west.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

It was like English got his little brother (Sweet) to fill in for his footy team because they were a few short.

There was a universe sized difference in their impacts on our game.

English is becoming a beast and we’ll soon start seeing those types of games against all opposition ruckman.

If we can bring in a more mobile ruck than Sweet that can impact inside 50 as well as hold his own at stoppages, we’ll have a scary Midfield/Ruck group.

An exciting prospect.

 

[doggies ftw]

Buku only played 64% game time again, I think Jamarra has to take his spot next week

 

[BEaston]

Always love a 100 point drubbing.

English didn't miss a beat.

 

[WAbulldog]

Praise the great Chicago1 for changing his meal, if he didn’t then we might of only won by 51 points.

 

[Snarls Barkley]

It’s hard to read too much into this because West Coast are horrendous but I think there are a lot of good signs.

Looks like we’re getting close to a team that makes sense.

Williams looks like a different player on the wing and is the best suited player on our list to play that role. McNeil, West and Weightman have the potential to be a strong pressure forward unit and all have additional layers to their game.

Sweet offers very little around the ground but it was nice to have a second ruckman, I hope they experiment with it a little more. I think he might be off more use against stronger rucks, English was dominating the taps and around the ground so there was little need to give Sweet an extended run in the middle. In a game like against Carlton where Pittonet was killing English in the taps, being able to shift to Sweet might be more useful. We’ll see if he gets more opportunity. Think the defense is close to our ideal set up, only question would be whether we want to add Crozier as an additional interceptor but I quite like the back 7 as it is